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Ep. 230: Mark Minervini Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Today on the show Michael Covel speaks with Mark Minervini. Minervini is the author of ‘Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market’ and was featured in Jack Schwager’s ‘Stock Market Wizards’. Minervini and Covel discuss the importance of influences outside of the finance world; Minervini’s atypical background in music and how he got to where he is today; capturing ‘super performance’ and the trend; the importance of cutting your losers short; how Minervini spends his day; Richard Love and ‘super performance’ stocks; why Minervini is not a fan of diversification beyond the minimum amount that you can get away with; Richard Donchian, Jesse Livermore and their influence on Minervini; timeless strategies; Paul Tudor Jones and ‘losers average losers’; the importance of not just trading what you know; ‘new high ground’ and not being afraid of buying higher highs; risk management and bet sizing; the biggest areas where new traders often start off on the wrong foot; Howard Lederer and poker players as an analogy to traders; why you shouldn’t even turn on the television as a stock trader. For more information on Mark Minervini, go to minervini.com.

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